NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3050 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.3GB/s vs 224.0GB/s)
Lower TDP (120W vs 130W)
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 OEM 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1755MHz vs 1709MHz)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 8 GB GDDR5X
4.375 TFLOPS
GeForce RTX 3050 OEM
+84%
8.087 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Unknown
Release Date
Jan 2022
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1515 MHz
1709 MHz
Boost Clock
1755 MHz
1001 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR5X
Memory Type
GDDR6
256bit
Memory Bus
128bit
256.3GB/s
Bandwidth
224.0GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
10
SM Count
18
1280
Shading Units
2304
80
TMUs
72
64
ROPs
32
-
Tensor Cores
72
-
RT Cores
18
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
2 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
109.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
56.16 GPixel/s
136.7 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
126.4 GTexel/s
68.36 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
8.087 TFLOPS
4.375 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
8.087 TFLOPS
136.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
126.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
130W
300 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP104
GPU Name
GA106
GP104-150-KA-A1
GPU Variant
GA106-150-KA-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
8 nm
7.2 billion
Transistors
12 billion
314 mm²
Die Size
276 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
